Employees Arrive at a Cafeteria According to a Poisson Process

question 4

Multiple Choice

Employees arrive at a cafeteria according to a Poisson process at an average rate of 30 employees per hour.The probability that after one employee arrives, the next one will arrive at least 3 minutes later is _________.

• A)0.223
• B)0.202
• C)0.183
• D)0.162
• E)0.143

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Definitions:

Time Tickets

Documents used to record the amount of an employee's time spent on each job or task, typically for billing or payroll purposes.

Factory

An establishment or complex of establishments involved in the machine-based production or assembly of merchandise.

Work in Process Account

An account in the general ledger representing the costs of incomplete products in manufacturing at any given time.

Cost Ledger

A subsidiary ledger that records the individual costs of production, providing detailed cost information.